Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in height and 8 inches in width.
Language: English
Coverage: Unknown
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The caption reads:
"The late Doctor Frank G. Speck, of the University of Pennsylvania and the late Morton Pennypacker, Suffolk County Historian, and I felt very strongly that Edna Eleazar is the last surviving full blood among the Shinnecock Tribe. Her mother was a Shinnecock and her father was Moses Walker a Montauk. He along with nine Shinnecocks who were said to be the last ten full blood men in the tribe perished in the wreck of the Circassion off Mecox Bay in December of 1876.
She and her late sister Miss Erenatine Walker were both excellent physical types of the full blood Shinnecock although both had very distinctly different facial characteristics. They bore strong resemblances to Cherokee, Catawba and Creek women. Mrs. Eleazar used to live in her cozy home which is directly behind the home of her late friend Ada Bunn who appears in photo 40.
Since breaking her hip some three years ago she has been a resident of the Sayville Long Island Nursing Home where she recently celebrated her 100th birthday. (1969)
Mrs. Eleazar passed away on April 25, 1969 at the County Home at Yaphank."
